Sounds like you don't know what a nightmare of version compat and bespokeness ops/obv is. This is going to be one of the harder things for LLMs to do because everyone is running on some snowflake held together with duct tape
Fair point - my statement is more about stealing market for simpler integrations by undercutting them on price.
And I don't want to trivialize the reality of enterprise platforms where bespoke connectors rule. I have dealt with migrations of platforms that are business critical and managing version compatibility and ensuring none of the integrations regressed was par for the course. I am not even saying that that makes me qualified to replicate Honeycomb.io. But I do think someone with a deep technical background in building observability platforms armed with Claude Code or Codex and armed with the right set of MCP's and all the necessary tooling should be able to build a clone of Honeycomb.uio.
Maybe it won't be a fast turnaround like a typical vibe-coded project but even if it is a month-long project to even get to 60% feature parity. these vendors will have to sit up and pay attention.
Fair point - my statement is more about stealing market for simpler integrations by undercutting them on price.
And I don't want to trivialize the reality of enterprise platforms where bespoke connectors rule. I have dealt with migrations of platforms that are business critical and managing version compatibility and ensuring none of the integrations regressed was par for the course. I am not even saying that that makes me qualified to replicate Honeycomb.io. But I do think someone with a deep technical background in building observability platforms armed with Claude Code or Codex and armed with the right set of MCP's and all the necessary tooling should be able to build a clone of Honeycomb.uio.
Maybe it won't be a fast turnaround like a typical vibe-coded project but even if it is a month-long project to even get to 60% feature parity. these vendors will have to sit up and pay attention.